NMLP P-021329 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Rose and the Yew Tree

Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie) · Rinehart (US) — true first; William Heinemann (UK) followed · 1948

The US edition (early 1948) precedes the UK Heinemann edition (November 1948), so the US printing is the true first, not the UK Heinemann edition as originally recorded. Sources cite the US publisher variously as Farrar and Rinehart or Rinehart; the firm was in transition around this date, so the exact imprint wording on the title page should be confirmed against a copy in hand.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-021329 for "The Rose and the Yew Tree" by Mary Westmacott (Agatha Christie) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-021329, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).